The joy of doing what you love and getting paid is second to none. Really. Think about it. Do you love to write about productivity? Have you been following a club from your early age and want to express your opinion? Love designing? Are you skilled in marketing and advertising? The best thing is that you can do these and get paid for it.

That is the job of a freelancer. You get paid to do what you love.

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Okay. You have decided to become a freelancer. So the next question that pops into our mind is “How do you get clients?”

I’m giving you three tips that you can act on right now and get a client within a week. That’s a guarantee if you really do what I say and do it well.

1. Guest Post

This is the best method. I don’t understand why people don’t rate guest blogging. It should be on top of their list if they need to get clients.

Of course, there are other uses to guest blogging.

How do you get clients by guest blogging?

Find a blog in your niche. When I say your niche, I mean the one that will suit you the best.

Are you a copywriter? You can write a guest post at Copyblogger.

At the end of the post, in the author byline, promote your service.

“XYZ is a blogger at ABC.Com and a freelance writer. You can see his sample works here. If you are hiring him, say “123 blog referred you” to get 20% off.”

Replace XYZ with your name, ABC.Com with your blog url and “123 blog” with the blog where you are guest posting.

By the way, this is how I got started.

2. Forums

Most people don’t visit forums when they need to find a job. The thing is there are quite a lot of job availabilities advertised in forums but very less takers.

Go to Warrior Forum and you will see thousands of marketers who are in need of a writer or designer. In warrior forum, you pay $20 to post about your service. But trust me, if you promote your service properly, you will get a lot of work. Lot more than you can handle.

The pay that you get for your work might be less but for starters it is a great place. Why not charge a couple of dollars when you are starting out instead of doing work for free to get testimonials?

If you are short of money, then you should read this lengthy post that I wrote about getting freelance work using forums at Freelance Folder. You can read it here.

3. Video Marketing

Video marketing is the next big thing. Or it already is. You have inspiration in the form of Gary Vaynerchuk for video marketing. When a person can build a huge business using video marketing, of course after a lot of hard work, you should be able to get a job using video marketing. Although I haven’t tried this, I know people who have done it successfully. I might give it a try in future.

Create a video explaining about yourself and your service. Post it on every video site. The only negative about this method is that you might get a lot of negative comments. If you are a person who doesn’t mind that (just like me), surely this method is for you.

Tip: Try to add humor. This video might help you with that. (:P)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Let me know what you think about these methods in the comments. Once you have done that, take action right now. Any one method will do. Sit down and think which method will suit you the best and go for it.

This blog post is inspired by the post over at Freelance Folder written by Laura Spencer on Five Ways to Start a Freelance Business Right Now. Make sure you read that too. The points in that post are completely different.

Let’s talk about the latest wordtracker keyword questions tool. The free wordtracker keyword questions tool helps you to find questions related to the keywords that you enter. If your keyword is weight loss, you will see questions that people search for. See the below image which shows you the questions for the keyword weight loss (They are number of searches per day).

You get more results than what is shown above.

So how can you use the free wordtracker keyword question tool to earn money?

Here are the top 3 ways you can earn money using the tool:

1. Blogging
There are always times when you don’t have anything to write about. At these times, go to the keyword tool and search for a keyword that is related to your niche. If your niche is personal development, don’t enter personal development. It won’t help you in anyway. Search for a much clearer term. If I’m a personal development blogger, I would search for something like “exercise” which is clearer. Once you have found a couple of good keywords, you can write articles and post them to your blog. Search engine traffic is the best when you want to earn money. Using this tool properly, you can get ore search engine visitors to your blog and as a result, earn more money.

2. Create A Product
Once you know what people are asking, it is easy to create a product. When you are creating a product, the first thing you want to check is, whether there is a buying market. Since you have found out that people are asking questions and need help, your product have a high chance of doing well. For blog posts, you should go for less competitive terms while for creating products, you can go with search terms with more competition. Products tend to rank well in spite of the competition.

3. Article marketing And Squidoo
If you don’t have a popular blog or if you want to write articles in different niches, you should go for article marketing. I talked about the benefits of article marketing in the blog post I wrote the past week at Blogging Tips. Article marketing and squidoo can be used to earn money. Choose a good affiliate product for the topic you are writing articles on. Join as an affiliate and promote the product in the articles you have written or in the squidoo lenses you have created.
Have you been using the keyword tool already? How are you going to use the tool to earn money?

P.S: I will write a follow up post on how you can find the best products to promote. It will reveal the same methods that I use to find the best affiliate products. Don’t forget to subscribe to the blog so that you will not miss the article.